June 22, 2015

Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC), a leading provider in billing and practice management for the anesthesia and pain management specialty, is pleased to announce its latest partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University, (VCU) Department of Anesthesiology to provide integrated practice management billing services.

ABC entered into discussions with VCU to explore options to integrate VCU’s billing information into ABC’s proprietary practice management software, F1RSTAnesthesia. Effective September 1, 2015, ABC will begin receiving charge information from VCU. This data will be processed via F1RSTAnesthesia with its very sophisticated concurrency and reporting modules and returned to VCU’s GE-IDX system through a secure HL7 interface. The data will then be finalized via VCU’s GE-IDX system, allowing VCU to bill claims out of their historical system, maintaining the look and feel of an internal process.

“We are very excited to be working with Virginia Commonwealth University on this exciting, new project,” says Tony Mira, President and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants. “We see the integration of F1RSTAnesthesia into their billing process as an excellent way to allow them to provide the level of service they are known for, but expand their access to data and analytics. F1RSTAnesthesia is very powerful, and, as this project demonstrates, highly flexible and adaptable to client needs.”